In 1998, chef Angelo Elia brought fine Tuscan cuisine to the city with his first outpost of Casa D'Angelo, which now has locations in Boca and the Atlantis Hotel & Resort in the Bahamas.

Fourteen years ago, Dean James Max brought his modern American technique and local sustainable approach to seafood with 3030 Ocean in the Harbor Beach Marriott Resort & Spa -- he recently left, and his protégé Paula DaSilva is about to return.

In any case, here's a list of the ten best restaurants in Fort Lauderdale, Disagree? Leave a comment..

Warning: You're about to get hungry.

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10. Sea Restaurant
In this nondescript strip-mall spot on East Commercial Boulevard, chef/owner Tony Sindaco pumps out a menu that is anything but commonplace. Delectable dishes, from tuna Bolognese to braised black grouper, served with ever-changing but perfectly cooked accouterments, will satisfy any seafood lover's craving -- and might convert a few haters. The mind-blowing effect totally makes sense given Sindaco's résumé; the award-winning chef spent time working in kitchens across the U.S. and Europe, including stints at Michelin 5-Star Palace Hotel in Gstaad, Switzerland, and Chef Poissoniere at the Five Diamond Helmsley Palace in New York City under Andre Rene. At Sea, Sindaco brings his haute approach to casual beach-inspired digs. That's exactly why we nominated the Lilliputian spot New Times winner for Best Seafood - 2012.

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it's NOT what we think as MUCH AS those who know the real deal PICKED a sub shop as a FT LIQUORDALE number 1 "restaurant"

NO ONE comes here specifically for the F O O D so it's really no shame that our food is basically average and picking the "best" is widely perceived as "for here" realizing full well that the "worst" elsewhere would be better than our "best" in most comparisons

be prepared to be OVERcharged and UNDERwhelmed - most are here today gone tomorrow TOURIST traps that scrounge around during the off-season with reduced service and less-than-top-shelf quality food offerings - enhancing their revenues with higher VALET and PARKING FEEs and excessive mark-ups on alcohol

the really great ones like FULVIOs in hollywood smartly simple shut down for the summer rather than screw up summer offerings and risk a decades long reputation with followers for that duration being common

I mostly agree with the list. Johnny V's deserves to be on there and Wild Sea does not. Johnny is always spot on with very good service. Wild Sea has underwhelming service and very limited menu that is just ok.

@frankd4Wait a minute - you are "very suspicious" of any restaurant that stays open during the summer? As a born-and-raised lifelong Floridian, I'm mildly appalled by that idea. If a restaurant caters to locals shouldn't it remain open when the tourists leave to serve its supportive, local base? If anything, restaurants should use the summer to offer specials for locals and experiment with the menu. Or they should just keep on with business as usual since this isn't the 1920s or even the '60s anymore. "Season" still exists, of course, but we aren't quite the itinerant, retiree population we used to be.

or else i go to places that are looking to be ready for the next "season" before much promotion puffing..............such as SUNSET CATCH which has and is spending a lot of resources on Mario's newest addition here and is currently in full bloom partly as practice for the up-coming snowbird season getting any and all of the kinks out

the ambience is a little much, but the SERVICE and FOOD PREP is the real focus anyhow, and at the price-point they are in, BOTH service and food prep better be in tip top shape come the winter season snowbird migration

at $70 to $85 per person ALL IN - at a hard to find location it had better give its patrons GREAT reasons to come and be inconvienienced by the limited and tight parking, beach traffic, no ocean, towards-the-west (inland) view

it was on my daughter's MUST TRY list so i went and really did enjoy it - mostly because those pain-in-the-ass northern snowbirds i moved down here to be away from were absent ! we basically had the whole place, indoor-bar and outdoor-patio to ourselves - and to me that's worth it !

well certain MARINOs team- mates and former coach have made a name for themselves in bagels and donuts and steakhouses that push other stuff to sell during off-season - having $30 t-shirts and other dol-fan related items to go with a bagel OR having coach show up for photos at the steakhouses will squeeze extra out of the off-season